Richard David Hames

Contagion: Living With And Through The Plague (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

What an unprecedented experience the last two years has brought. A global populace has been in a state of extreme trepidation. An instinct for imposing draconian rules to maintain public order was revealed by governments of all persuasions around the world. Meanwhile the global economy shuddered almost to a standstill. Not through nuclear warfare or the climate crisis, both of which continue to present existential threats to humanity, but by a virus we have known about for at least a couple of decades. A pathogen so tiny it remains invisible to the naked eye.

Apart from the death toll, now exceeding 5.143 million people, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has caused the suicide rate to jump, mental health problems to increase as families and loved ones remain isolated from each other, disruptions and civil disobedience to be met by rubber bullets and riot police, and a spate of conspiracy theories ranging from the intriguing to the plainly absurd to fascinate the popular press. At the same time every individual has experienced the pandemic from wildly different perspectives.

Contagion is a collection of ten essays commissioned by my friends in 2021 at the height of the Convid-19 pandemic. Each essay explores one or more aspects of life and death, business and education, health and travel, as we face potentially the most grievous biomedical threat to humanity since the Spanish Flu over a century ago.
Each of the ten essays in this anthology is connected in some way to the current pandemic. Akin to Alfred Hitchcock's cameo appearances in each of his movies, the spectre of Covid-19 is ever present, though not always overtly, within the context of each of the dialogues. I want readers to take away an understanding of the impermanent nature of knowledge, and the shifting nature of truth, as shards of information spill and cascade around us, while misinterpretations that we bring to any narrative that matters, intermingle in ways that prance into our consciousness and embed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Richard David Hames
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005812874
• Artikelnr.: 69943278

Autorenporträt

Dr Richard David Hames is an Australian citizen, born and educated in Europe, now resident in Asia. Recently described as one of this century's most insightful philosopher-activists, and by Forbes Asia as one of the smartest people on the planet, Richard is considered to be among the world's most influential intellectuals and strategic knowledge designers. Richard is the Executive Director of the Centre for the Future, Executive Chairman of The Hames Group, and President of the Asian Foresight Institute. Richard works internationally as an adviser to governments and with many of the world's most innovative and entrepreneurial business corporations. Richard has been a personal mentor to heads of state, government ministers, CEOs, company directors and entrepreneurs across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and South America and is also acknowledged within the foresight community as one of the world's most accurate futurists. A celebrated speaker and writer, Richard is the author of several best-selling books including The Management Myth; Burying the 20th Century and The Five Literacies of Global Leadership. He is currently working on three new books, Contagion; Dancing with the Future; and Arcs of Intersection & Ascent. All three are concerned with the development of a post-humanitarian cosmology and societal paradigms from advanced levels of collective consciousness.